Ahira [ahıra] is a planet of about 3/4 the size of the Earth. In addition it has only 90 percent of the Earth’s density. The result is 86% of the Earth’s gravity. The planet has plate tectonics but it is considerably slower than the Earth’s. With an age of less than a thousand million years it is actually far too young to have multicellular life. The explanation is that the planet was terraformed about 66 million years ago. However, the beings which terraformed it has been extinct for tens of millions of years.

This planet was colonised by iynisin in 2064 AD. These were escaped super-soldiers which used an about 500 years old alien starship. The colonists only consisted of 400 – 500 teenagers possessing some theoretical knowledge. In contrast they had almost no practical experience useful on Ahira. The first years they did everything to assure the survival of as many as possible. The result was a hunter-gatherer society organised in clans. They had formalised conflict solving but no formal political leadership. In 2267 humans from the First Empire found Ahira. The iynisin then did not want any technology which they could not make themselves. So the humans taught them a long row of low-tech handicrafts. Together with iynisin they developed an agriculture which was both organic and low-tech. Furthermore, the humans taught the iynisin how to avoid the worst by-effects of life as farmers and herders. The result was a population explosion which lasted until the middle of the 26th century. After that the population growth started to reduce by itself until it eventually almost stopped. The most progressive of the iynisin had chosen to leave Ahira and settle on different worlds. When the First Empire fell they lost contact with each other. One of these groups was the one on Fo’ur which the word iynisin first refereed to. The Federation of Althea rediscovered Ahira in 4155 AD. Since the humans were never numerous enough to build up a viable population the planet was populated entirely by iynisin. It was soon made clear that Ahira's population did not want to have anything with other iynisin to do. The Ahirin as they came to be called were given the right to the land they inhabited themselves. Moreover, they got formal right to a broad belt around it. The rest of the planet has been cut up between the 13 nations of Fo'ur. The map below shows how.